The Gaskins

[Astoness]

Well, Drinkwater might have popped down the road for a cigarette and glimpsed the pools through a hedge but I'm a bit more poetic about stuff and like to imagine that "Now dawn comes to my window Breathing midsummer roses" supports the idea that he drew back his curtains and squinted at the scene with it's pools below. That is also, of course, why I'm such a poor detective!!

hi neil actually i think you posting drinkwaters poem could lend more support to the gaskins living at no 32 and not no 16...my thinking was if his words are about what he saw and heard would he really be able to look through the window of no 16 see the pool and also hear the cookoo on olton pool....this is a very interesting thread so thanks to all for helping

lyn

 

[pjmburns]

You may recall that in post #76 I made this comment

I based my work on the assumption that Thomas Reeve hadn't moved house between being listed at Charnwood and later at #16.
I worked along the lines of counting on from Charnwood on the list from the 1921 directory

It was only an assumption that Charnwood became #16 but Thomas Reeve continued to live in Charnwood until his death in 1945.
His probate record contains his address
Listing Charnwood as house number 16 as well. This leads me to conclude that the assumption was correct and that counting on from there to Northleigh at 28 (as it still is today) and hence making Newlyn 32

 

[Astoness]

You may recall that in post #76 I made this comment

I based my work on the assumption that Thomas Reeve hadn't moved house between being listed at Charnwood and later at #16.
I worked along the lines of counting on from Charnwood on the list from the 1921 directory

It was only an assumption that Charnwood became #16 but Thomas Reeve continued to live in Charnwood until his death in 1945.
His probate record contains his address
Listing Charnwood as house number 16 as well. This leads me to conclude that the assumption was corret and that counting on from there to Northleigh at 28 (as it still is today) and hence making Newlyn 32

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thanks for persevering with your theory jan which led you to finding another document confirming that the gaskin family did indeed live at what is now no 32 st bernards road and what a splendid interior is has

lyn

 

[Neil M]

xxxxxxxxxxxxx Arthur Gaskin, 1896xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxGeorgie Gaskin, 1928
xxxxxxxxxxxJoseph Edward SouthallxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxArthur Gaskin

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[pjmburns]

A bit more matching of names and numbers
1921 directory

1928 directory (listing by name not street)

 

[Neil M]

Gold Medal of the Birmingham Civic Society designed by Arthur J Gaskin​

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"The medal shows, on the obverse, a mother and her child standing against an oak tree, which signifies that Art is eternally reborn in its immemorial association with natural beauty. The dancing children upon the left represent the spontaneous sense of life and the impulse for its expression which are the soul of Art. The half-raised building on the right reminds us that Art has a direct bearing on practical life and fulfils its true function, not in mere ornament, but in transmuting to forms of beauty the common needs of humanity. With this ideal it both suggests and anticipates a happier future. The reverse shows an eagle looking out from a rocky height upon a wide landscape, symbolising the spiritual discernment of Art."

From: Hayward, W. The Work of The Birmingham Civic Society from June 1918 to June 1946:[c1947], p162​

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Image of medals digitally remastered in colour​

The medal was first awarded in 1921 to "Mr. Appleby Mathews for his enthusiastic work in connection with the establishment of a City Orchestra, and for his services as its first conductor."